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Laddar... White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You (utgåvan 2013)av Simon Johnson (Författare)
VerksinformationWhite House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You av Simon Johnson
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a book that needs to be read by anyone who is perplexed or worried about the US national debt, and wants to understand why it matters. It begins with an entertaining - and illuminating - description of the country's very earliest tussles with questions of deficits, debt and payment for war - including a very interesting description of the difference between public finances in England and France 200+ years ago. It walks the reader through the various components of national debt, and what can actually be done about it. The US is very fortunate that despite high indebtedness, the rest of the world is happy to continue to lend it money - but that situation may not last forever. Getting the debt under control will not be easy, but it can be done; however, it will not be painless, as the presidential candidates appear to suggest. It shows - with hard data - just how costly the Bush tax cuts have been for the economy and how lowering taxes has simply not generated the supply-side response that is so often evoked as the justification for doing so. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"America is mired in debt--more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same. In White House Burning, Simon Johnson and James Kwak--authors of the national best seller 13 Bankers and cofounders of The Baseline Scenario, a widely cited blog on economics and public policy--demystify the national debt, explaining whence it came and, even more important, what it means to you and to future generations. They tell the story of the Founding Fathers' divisive struggles over taxes and spending. They chart the rise of the almighty dollar, which makes it easy for the United States to borrow money. They account for the debasement of our political system in the 1980s and 1990s, which produced today's dysfunctional and impotent Congress. And they show how, if we persist on our current course, the national debt will harm ordinary Americans by reducing the number of jobs, lowering living standards, increasing inequality, and forcing a sudden and drastic reduction in the government services we now take for granted. But Johnson and Kwak also provide a clear and compelling vision for how our debt crisis can be solved while strengthening our economy and preserving the essential functions of government. They debunk the myth that such crucial programs as Social Security and Medicare must be slashed to the bone. White House Burning looks squarely at the burgeoning national debt and proposes to defuse its threat to our wellbeing without forcing struggling middle-class families and the elderly into poverty. Carefully researched and informed by the same compelling storytelling and lucid analysis as 13 Bankers, White House Burning is an invaluable guide to the central political and economic issue of our time. It is certain to provoke vigorous debate"--"By the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America's unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower if it is not addressed soon, why this might be impossible given the hypocrisy about government deficits prevalent in Washington today--and what is to be done"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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